Improvement in cultivators



H. I. HEATON.

Wheel-Cultivator.

No. 37,166. Patented Dec 16, 1862.

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UNIHT'ED STATES PATENT Drifter.

H.I. HEATON, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTe/Arcee.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. S2166, dated December 1b', 1862.

To all whom 'it may concern.-

Be it known that I, H. I. HEATON, of Peoria, in the county ot' Peoria and State ot' Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Cultivator; and I do hereby declare that the following is aiull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specitication, in which- Figure l is a side sectional view oi' my in- Fig. V2 is a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention relates to an improved cultivator of that class in which adjustable or laterally-sliding shares or teeth are employed.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

Arepresents the frame of the machine, which is mounted on two wheels, B. B. The frame is of rectangular form, and is composed of two longitudinal bars, a et, connected by two or more traversebars, b b, the latter having the arms c c, on which the wheels B work, attached to it. Y

On the frame A there are placed transversely two bars, C C', which are allowed to slide freely on the frame in a transverse direction therewith, said bars being fitted in suitable guides, d, on the frame A. Y

D represents the draft pole of the machine, which is attached by a pivot-bolt, d, to the front part of a bar, E, said bar projecting ceutrally from the front part ofthe frame A. The draft-pole D extends to the back part of the frame A, and is connected at c to the sliding bar G', which is on the back part ot' the frame A. The sliding bar C, which is on the i'ront part ot said frame, has an upright bail-shaped suppornf, attached to it, to which a lever, F, is attached, the front end of said lever being secured by a staple, g, to the draftfpole D, which staple forms a fulcrum for said lever. rEhe front sliding bar, U, is also connected by an arm, G, to the lever F, the front end of said arm being attached a pivot, h, to the center of bar C, audits back end connected by a pivot, t', to the traverse-bar b', the arm G being connected to the lever F by a pivot, j,

at a point about midway between the bar C and the traverse-bar b. (See Fig. l.)

From the above description it will be seen that by moving the lever F either to the right or left the bars C C will be simultaneously moved in the same direction, and also the back part of the dratt-pole D, the front part of the latter being held by the neck-yoke and team.

Each sliding bar C C has two pendent bars, H, attached to it by screw-bolts 7c, which pass through oblong slot-s l in the bars C G, and are secured therein at any desired point by the nuts m of the bolt. By this mode of attaching the bars H to the bars G C the former may be adjusted laterally at a greater or less distance apart, as desired.

I I represent inclined braces, which are attached at their front ends to the lower parts ofthe pendent bars H of the front bar, C, and attached at their back ends to the upper parts of the bars H ot' the back bar, C.

J J represent narrow frames, formed each of two parallel bars, a a, connected by traversebars o. The front ends of these frames are connected byjoints p to the lower ends of the pendent vbars H of the front sliding bar,2G. The baci; parts of these frames J are connected by chains q to a shaft, K, thejournals of which are in inclined bars L L on the frame A, on the back parts of which the drivers seat M is secured. llhe shaft K has a lever, N, attached to it, and a hook, 0,'is attached to hold the lever N when pressed down. The pendent bars ISI of the back sliding bar, C', tit in the back parts ofthe frames J J, and serve as guides for the same, preventing any lateral working or play thereofiiulependent ofthe sliding bars C C.

To the frames J J the shares or teeth P are attached. These shares or teeth may be of the usual or any proper form, and they may be raised entirely free from the ground when necessary by turning the shaft K, the chains q (j elevating them, and the chains held in proper position by placing the leverN under the hook O on theframeA. In order to adjust the shares or teeth laterally either to the right or left, the lever F is moved, and consequently the bars O (land draft-pole D, the front part of the latter moving in a reverse direction to the sha-res or teeth, and consequently enabling the machine to be readily adjusted to the sinuosities of the rows of plants. The shares, it will be seen, may he adjusted nearer together or farther apart by adjusting the pendent bars H, as previously described.

It is designed to have the shares of the two frames J J work at opposite sides of each row of plants, a horse walking in the spaces between the rows. The double-treeP is attached to the frame A near its back part, and a. rod, Q, is attached to each end of the double-tree, said rods extending along` at each side of the frame A, and attached at their front ends to swinging pendent bars It, which are connected to the front traverse-bar, b, of the frame A by hinges or joints which admit of the bars R swinging forward and backward.

The whifdetrees are attached to the pendent bars R, the latter admitting of the necessary play of the double-tree, and at thc same time preventing the whifdetrees from falling or com ing vin contact with the horses heels.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the sliding bars G U', draft-pole'D, bar E, and lever F, in connection with the frames J J, havingthe plows P attached, all arranged as and for the purpose herein set forth.

H. I. HEATON.

,Witnessesz E. G. JOHNSON, J. C. WILSON. 

